A proposal to support businesses who refuse to sell the Sun will be voted on by Flintshire council today.

The local authority will be asked to support a notice of motion calling for them to “support any Flintshire retailer or newspaper vendor that choose not to sell the Sun newspaper” as a result of the newspaper’s coverage of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.

The motion has been lodged following the efforts of campaign group Total Eclipse of the S*n, which has tried to prevent the sale of the newspaper nationwide.

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It was previously reported that the motion, put forward by Flintshire Council’s deputy leader Bernie Attridge and Cllr Kevin Hughes, would include plans preventing access to council buildings by Sun journalists, banning copies of the newspaper from authority properties, and preventing councillors speaking to the newspaper.

However, these plans have not been included in the final notice.

Such plans had been the subject of controversy when originally mooted.

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“We lend our support to the campaign ‘Total Eclipse of the Sun’ in solidarity with fellow councils in the North West of the United Kingdom.”

A similar motion was backed by councillors at Cheshire West and Chester Council, banning them from speaking to the newspaper.

Cllr Attridge and Hughes added that the proposal had come about because “the council cannot overlook the hurt and distress caused by the lies and smears printed in The Sun at that time - especially to the families of the 96”.

They added: “Neither can we overlook The Sun’s stubborn refusal to apologise properly for the hurt it caused until it became clear to the newspaper that public opinion demanded such an apology.

“On April 26th 2016 a jury returned verdicts of unlawful killing in relation to each victim.

“It is this council’s hope that in due course the conclusions reached by the Hillsborough inquest will come to finally result in justice for the victims of this tragedy.”